Five years ago almost to the day I wrote this column about the abysmal state of geek fashion and marketing for women. In 2015 I wrote this column, lauding the advances that had been made in that area and highlighting some great finds. Now I write to celebrate the fact that there are currently cool…
Happy post-Halloween, everyone! I hope it was spooooky and fun and sugar-coma-tastic. Man, I love Halloween. And this year I had a big party to go to, so I decided to go all out on my costume, a creepy “broken doll.” Even though this year’s costume was not specifically geek-related (unlike that year I went…
Three years ago right around this time, I was lamenting the fact that there was a sad, sad lack of comics and genre fashion merchandise geared towards women. At the time, my experience was that the available clothing for women to purchase and wear was mostly t-shirts, only some of which were actually fitted for or…
With only a couple weeks until Christmas, we Tweeks can’t stop thinking about what we’ll be getting (because duh…we’ve been totally good this year). But it’s also come to our attention that we’re not easy to give gifts to. Anya prefers digital comics and Maddy can’t watch DVDs on her laptop, but you can’t unwrap…
Updating a pair of previous stories, developments in the rip-off scandal involving cartoonist Jess Fink and the Hot Topic clothing store seem to have moved in a satisfying direction for the artist, and the fundraising efforts for Rachel Nabors’ dental surgery are also on a positive trend. From Fink’s website: The person who wrote me…
The Jess Fink / Hot Topic rip-off scandal continues to evolve, and recently spilled over into the world of Fleen, where the popular webcomic blog’s mustachioed marksman, Gary Tyrrell, took aim at the clothing company and provided some helpful information for those looking to pepper Hot Topic with bullets of justice and, well… I think…
Popular adult-oriented cartoonist Jess Fink is mad as hell, apparently — and she’s not going to take it anymore. After a fan alerted her to a suspicously familiar t-shirt design advertised on chain clothing store Hot Topic’s website, Fink is on a mission to prevent the store from selling any more shirts with the design…
